World in brief - 27 March 2014
ߣߣƵ‘Poor standards’ a fictionThere is no evidence that some ߣߣƵn universities are softer markers or have lower academic standards than others, a study has found. The four-year “Office for...
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Stand-out marketing
I was unsurprised to read about the increase in marketing spend by post-1992 universities (“It’s spend, spend, spend to attract students, but does anyone notice?”, News, 20 March).Recent research by...
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By the seat of his pants
Omar Malik writes a good knock-about review of Matthias Beck and Beth Kewell’s Risk: A Study of its Origins, History and Politics (Books, 13 March), but he clearly read a different text from the one...
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Now is the time to invest
The news that the government’s loan scheme is likely to be as expensive as the system it replaced because of the amount of student debt that may never be repaid (“New fees regime edges close to cost...
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THE Scholarly Web - 27 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Diane Coyle
We speak to the new professor of economics at the University of Manchester
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Mike Blandamer, 1934-2014
A leading researcher in thermodynamics has died
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Rewrite the source code
Harris (2014) in a popular higher education publication writes that the effect of the system of referring to academic writers exclusively by their surname distances readers from the author and...
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UK/US institution alliance aims for collaborative growth
Birmingham and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pledge coordination on multidisciplinary research projects
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‘Invest in regional universities to rebalance UK economy’
Study of the economic impact of graduates recommends universities should be placed at the centre of strategies to boost regional growth
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Elsevier: bumps on road to open access
Academic seeks to gather examples of cases where open access article fees have been paid but content remains behind a paywall
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Focus on recruiting foreign students reveals ‘mission drift’
Pro v-c at Nottingham Trent attacks ‘profit chasing’ in sector and calls time on marketing speak
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Foreign students: a belated welcome
James Brokenshire, the immigration minister, said that he wanted to ‘underline’ a ‘message of welcome’ to international students
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Former Leeds student loses appeal against removal of PhD scholarship
Sanaz Raji criticises eight-month wait for decision from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator
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Cinematic deconstruction: Derrida gets a close-up
Film draws on 1980 work to expose philosopher’s ideas to general audience